December
Wish Book Christmas by Lynn Austin

Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when the 1951 Sears Christmas Wish Book arrives and the boys start obsessing over every toy in it, Audrey and Eve realize they must first teach them the true significance of the holiday.

January
The Flame of the White Horseman by Jess K. Chavez
The world is not what it was. Light is but a tiny flickering flame in a blanket of darkness, struggling not to be snuffed out. Lucia an orphan girl, is also a Core, a physical manifestation of Elohim’s pure love and part of an ancient prophecy that will prevent the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from being controlled by the darkness to destroy everything good.

February
The book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before.